Quote: Jukesays "For my money and this is exactly what I said end of last year - IL will not make his mind up & act spur of the moment - he will plan things and it wouldn't surprise me if he has said to Wane he can have 12 more months 2018 and we'll look for your successor for 2019.
Believe me or not - That's exactly what I thought would happen and bearing in mind I knew of Madge's arrival at the end of 2008, that's exactly what I think will have happened here.'"
If this was planned succession then I think the press release would have been all about that and the fact the parting of the ways was with mutual consent and so on. As it is IL says, and I quote, "I feel certain that his decision to leave will have been a difficult one". So I think it is obvious Wane is the one who called time on his stint here. Wane himself also begins his statement with the word "Regrettably I have decided to announce my resignation....". You don't resign and regret doing so if this was all port of a plan nor as a chairman put out a press release saying your head coach has resigned when there are far more positive ways to present something that was supposedly a planned succession.
I respect Wane's decision either way. If he's got fed up with how IL runs things and has walked away good for him, if he has been offered another challenge then he's not taken the easy way out and stuck at Wigan just because there was a job here for him (which I am convinced there was).